"Oh my God, this is the kingdom of God, why is it so rich here, how can the people here be so polite and temperamental."
Clone sighed.Then he saw that the official roads here were wide and neat, like spider webs, spreading in the shade of the trees, and the carriages were as many as flowing water, and very orderly, and the people walking by the sidewalks had smiles on their faces.Unlike them in Europe, the streets are full of filth, and the nobles and citizens do not like to bathe, especially on rainy days, and the whole city stinks.Therefore, he felt even more that he felt that Spain was really incomparable in front of the Ming Dynasty."
Oh my God, do the commoners here also live in brick houses like this castle, you know, our commoners can only live in shacks, and the beautiful brick castle belongs only to the nobles."
Aboukui said with the same surprise."
There is no gap between the nobles and the commoners here, the commoners here also have their own houses and gorgeous costumes, they can also receive education, if they are sick, they can still get the opportunity to be treated, there are many medical centers opened by the government, doctors are hired by the government, because there are subsidies from the government, and civilians can be treated without paying a high price when they are sick, and even infectious and fatal diseases have to be registered, my God, they can be cured without bloodletting!
It seems that the government here did not just serve the aristocracy, they had ample taxes to ensure the livelihood of the commoners. ”"People here love to read very much, every family has books, I often see people who hold books to read, and there are even special newspaper readers to read to the common people, and the books they read are very miscellaneous, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism can take root here, and even our teachings are discussed here, oh my God, if this is in our place, except for what the church allows, other kinds of doctrine books are not recognized, how can their church here be so tolerant of culture, but they don't seem to have a religion that they must believe;" "Their emperor is not crowned by the church, I dare to ask, that the emperor is the will of God, that is to say, their emperor is the worldly ruler and their God?
But according to their knowledge of history, it seems that they can overthrow their emperor, and their emperor is also pushed up by themselves, and the enthronement ceremony in their records records records the process of the world's subjects supporting him as emperor, so, it should be said, their emperor is their own choice, which is different from us, our emperor is not decided by us, they also have a kind of remark about the princely general Xiangning, and in their country, it was proposed more than a thousand years ago, which is really surprising, no wonder they are very powerful, Presumably, the nobles here also have to face the pressure of being eliminated, our nobles have always talked about blood, don't want to be a nobleman without noble blood, our gap is really too big. ”"I finally arrived in Beijing, the prosperous towns on both sides of the Grand Canal made me feel that any city is far richer than our Lisbon, so I am even more looking forward to how prosperous their Beijing Division will be, and when I saw it, even if I was mentally prepared, I was still shocked by his prosperity, maybe this is the city of God!
It was as if I had come to heaven, the whole city seemed to be covered with brocade, the abundance of goods dazzled me, everyone smiled, they did not seem to know the horror of death and the hardship of poverty, hunger seemed to be forever insulated from them, the nobles here seemed to contain infinite wisdom, such as their Xu Ge Lao had long known all our knowledge, and knew more about geometry and geography than I did, I finally met their emperor, my God, their emperor was so young, but wise and erudite terrifying, Because he even knows our history, and makes us wary of England, which has not yet been recognized by enough nobles in our own country!
Also, I was fortunate to see their guards, that is really the most unwarlike army in the world I have ever seen, all tall and straight, very brave, the key is not less than 50,000, with a lot of firearms and artillery, mainly because of the manufacturing of them fast, their ordnance manufacturing bureau, I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of craftsmen involved in manufacturing, every day there are many artillery equipment into the army, even if I raise the tax rate to eighty, I can't raise such a huge army and craftsmen!
Their strength is beyond our imagination, and it is no wonder that they can manage such a vast territory, which undoubtedly proves the advanced system of their rule!
Perhaps, if I want to become such an empire, I have to learn from them, their Chinese characters seem to be more conducive to expression, and it is easier to open people's wisdom, I think we want to become such a powerful super empire, the first thing to do is to popularize Chinese characters, learn their culture, I have to say, this is really a country favored by God!
”Abukui began to learn from Marco Polo along the way, wrote his own travel diary, and wrote down his experience in Daming.Moreover, he is also like Marco Polo, who does not hesitate to praise the Ming Dynasty.In modern times, many literati who had an inferiority complex because they saw the strength of the West thought that their country was backward because of the difference in writing and took the initiative to advocate abandoning the Chinese language, and now Abukui has begun to shake his self-confidence in his own writing and culture.Clone naturally has the same feeling, he has begun to take the initiative to buy the four books and five classics and Tang poems and Song Ci published by Chongwen Temple, as well as the books "Daming Huidian" and "Emperor Ming Zuxun" back, he is determined to find the secret of the strength of the Ming Empire from the Chinese literature and history, as the governor, they naturally also hired a translator, to understand Chinese culture, but also to understand some.Abkui and Clone came to Daming this time, and they were indeed greatly impacted.Because in this era, except for the emperor who is a traverser, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are not as conservative as the scholars of the Qing Dynasty, and they are more active and open than Westerners in understanding foreign cultures.Even, many Han Chinese doctors took the initiative to call some learned and virtuous Western missionaries Taixi Confucian.The Han scholars of this era also formed active thinking through this kind of active cultural exchange, and formed their own new ideas.On the contrary, the Westerners of this era did not take the initiative to absorb foreign cultures, because they were still relatively barbaric, paying attention to direct colonial plunder, and in terms of cultural exchanges, they were also forcibly assimilated, treating other cultures as hereticals, and even directly exterminating people with other cultures, otherwise there would not have been many religious wars.And now in the Ming Dynasty, because since the emergence of Xinxue in the Zhengde Dynasty, the hegemony of science in the ideological world has been shaken, and many literati who do not conform to mainstream ideas have appeared, such as Li Zhen; In addition, Emperor Zhu Youxiao likes to explore the essence of things and transform the practical application of society, as well as the emergence of various new social production relations, so that the current thinking of the Ming Dynasty is particularly diverse, and it is also very open, so that under the influence of this, all kinds of scholars and doctors, although some are conservative, there are also many open schools who take the initiative to study other cultures and intend to create new learning.This also makes the current Da Ming more open and civilized than the Western countries.Therefore, I can't help but be amazed by the two nobles from the West, Abukui and Clones, and feel ashamed.Although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, is now very strict in the legal system, even if the privileged strata of the empire violate the law, they will be severely punished, such as raiding the family and exterminating the clan and even beheading the head of the family, but they are not the governor of the Ming Dynasty, they naturally do not know that being a nobleman in the Ming Dynasty is not as comfortable as being a nobleman in their Europe.